Center of Gravity by Teoniki Rożynek
music album on limited edition analogue cassette and digital download
Throughout the summer of 2025, Teoniki Rożynek undertook a sonic exploration of the new building of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw to compose an album rooted in her practice of attentive listening to reality, interweaving field recordings with fragments of sonic debris and sound waste she has collected over the years. In collaboration with Joanna Duda, she focused on the hidden acoustic landscape of the museum’s underground levels, -1 and -2, spaces normally inaccessible to visitors. Suspended between Warsaw’s metro stations and the dense network of the city’s energy and water infrastructure, the museum’s underbelly reveals a unique sound environment. The recordings capture hums of water flowing in pipes, hisses, and crackles of the “lungs” and “veins” of the building that allow the new museum to function as if it were a living organism.
Digital download is available from BANDCAMP
Within the EU, please order the cassette from the bookshop of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw